Word: nansen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norwegian people confirmed this rash act by a national plebiscite, only 184 voting to preserve the Union of Sweden & Norway, while 368,211 were for independence. But that did not settle who was to be King of Norway. There was much talk of choosing the late Explorer Fridtjof Nansen who, in his less famed role of Norwegian statesman, had ceaselessly striven to free his country...
...Sweden let Norway go so easily? It was there that Edward VII helped the Norns. Fridtjof Nansen could not have brought the pressure upon Stockholm which London brought. The new King of Norway as one of his first, most gracious acts appointed Explorer Nansen First Minister of the Kingdom of Norway to the Court of St. James...
Died. Captain Otto Sverdrup, 76, Arctic explorer; in Oslo, Norway. He commanded the Fram, Dr. Fridtjof Nansen's ship, on polar voyages in 1893; he and Dr. Nansen were the first white men to cross Greenland; in 1928 he served as expert adviser to rescuers of General Umberto Nobile's Italia expedition and searchers for his friend Roald Amundsen, lost off Tromso while attempting to rescue General Nobile...
...Islands. Soviet professors aboard the icebreaker Sedov discovered two new Arctic islands near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. They named them Wise and Kameniev Islands after two expedition members. They suspected their finds were part of a large archipelago. Some of the party went ashore on Fridtjof Nansen Land for a cold year's stay to operate the world's most northerly radio station...
Last week the Don Cossacks arrived for a first U. S. tour. They entered the country on "Nansen passes" (devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen to aid Russian emigres after the Revolution, issued by the League of Nations). Stories preceded them: about a concert they gave in Yassi, frontier town of Rumania, where so many Bessarabians mobbed the theatre that firemen were called to play the hose on them; in Riga, where 20,000 people met Jaroff at the station, carried him and his automobile to the hotel; in Berlin, where a German general gave...